| The Cooperative Program is about more than offerings -- it's about missions, here at home and abroad! Let's put a face on CP Missions with some facts. |
 Once you’ve placed your tithe in the offering plate, have you considered how your gift touches lives? The Cooperative Program is caring people, partnering together to spread the Good News of Christ. This partnership begins with offering gifts from Kentucky Baptist churches of all sizes. A portion of your church’s annual budget is designated through CP Missions each year. A percentage of CP Missions gifts remain in Kentucky to help ministries across the state. Another percentage is designated for Southern Baptist missions across the nation and the world. Your offering makes a difference! Here's how:
According to the 2000 census, 13.5% of Kentucky residents are Hispanics. There are now 65 Kentucky Baptist Hispanic ministries.
There are 150 middle and high schools across Kentucky that use evangelism strategies to win the lost to Christ.
The 2,100 attendees of the 2003 Creative Ministries Festival learned to use interpretative movement, drama, clowning, puppets and other arts in worship, on mission trips and community events.
2002 Super Saturday regional training events were hosted in six sites, with 468 churches represented and 2,857 people in total attendance.
The 100 Days of Prayer guides (2002) were distributed to 40,000 people statewide.
Approximately 1,061 people are now involved in Kentucky ’s women's ministry network.
There are 13 full time and 12 part- time campus ministers serving at 36 Kentucky campuses. Nearly 5,800 students participate in Baptist Campus Ministries across the state and an average of 500 students serve in summer missions each year.
Over 400 volunteers served in 2002 partnership opportunities.
There are 1,348 Kentucky Baptist retirees enrolled in the Southern Baptist Convention ’s Annuity plan.
Cross Over, a regional evangelistic outreach prior to the KBC annual meeting, had 1,200 volunteers in 2002.
A dozen languages are represented in various ethnic Kentucky Baptist congregations.
The idea for the Cooperative Program originated in Kentucky 88 years ago. Kentucky ’s adoption of this unified budget plan influenced the national financial network of missions giving. |